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- And in the end, of course, a true war story is never about war. It's about sunlight. It's about the special way that dawn spreads…
- You don't know. When I'm out there at night I feel close to my own body, I can feel my blood moving, my skin and…
- The world shrieks and sinks talons into our hearts. This we call memory.
- I'm skimming across the surface of my own history, moving fast, riding the melt beneath the blades, doing loops and spins, and when I take…
- Even then, at nine years old, I wanted to live inside her body. I wanted to melt into her bones - THAT kind of love.
- Linda was nine then, as I was, but we were in love...it had all the shadings and complexities of mature adult love and maybe more,…
- But the thing about remembering is that you don't forget. You take your material where you find it, which is in your life, at the…
- They did not submit to the obvious alternative, which was simply to close the eyes and fall. So easy, really. Go limp and tumble to…
- Mitchell Sanders was right. For the common soldier, at least, war has the feel-the spiritual texture-of a great ghostly fog, thick and permanent. There is…
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